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				.Dd May 21, 2004
				.Dt GCONCAT 8
				.Os
				.Sh NAME
				.Nm gconcat
				.Nd "disk concatenation control utility"
				.Sh SYNOPSIS
				.Nm
				.Cm create
				.Op Fl v
				.Ar name
				.Ar prov ...
				.Nm
				.Cm destroy
				.Op Fl fv
				.Ar name ...
				.Nm
				.Cm label
				.Op Fl hv
				.Ar name
				.Ar prov ...
				.Nm
				.Cm stop
				.Op Fl fv
				.Ar name ...
				.Nm
				.Cm clear
				.Op Fl v
				.Ar prov ...
				.Nm
				.Cm dump
				.Ar prov ...
				.Nm
				.Cm list
				.Nm
				.Cm status
				.Nm
				.Cm load
				.Nm
				.Cm unload
				.Sh DESCRIPTION
				The
				.Nm
				utility is used for device concatenation configuration.
				The concatenation can be configured using two different methods:
				.Dq manual
				or
				.Dq automatic .
				When using the
				.Dq manual
				method, no metadata are stored on the devices, so the concatenated
				device has to be configured by hand every time it is needed.
				The
				.Dq automatic
				method uses on-disk metadata to detect devices.
				Once devices are labeled, they will be automatically detected and
				configured.
				.Pp
				The first argument to
				.Nm
				indicates an action to be performed:
				.Bl -tag -width ".Cm destroy"
				.It Cm create
				Concatenate the given devices with specified
				.Ar name .
				This is the
				.Dq manual
				method.
				The kernel module
				.Pa geom_concat.ko
				will be loaded if it is not loaded already.
				.It Cm label
				Concatenate the given devices with the specified
				.Ar name .
				This is the
				.Dq automatic
				method, where metadata are stored in every device's last sector.
				The kernel module
				.Pa geom_concat.ko
				will be loaded if it is not loaded already.
				.It Cm stop
				Turn off existing concatenate device by its
				.Ar name .
				This command does not touch on-disk metadata!
				.It Cm destroy
				Same as
				.Cm stop .
				.It Cm clear
				Clear metadata on the given devices.
				.It Cm dump
				Dump metadata stored on the given devices.
				.It Cm list
				See
				.Xr geom 8 .
				.It Cm status
				See
				.Xr geom 8 .
				.It Cm load
				See
				.Xr geom 8 .
				.It Cm unload
				See
				.Xr geom 8 .
				.El
				.Pp
				Additional options:
				.Bl -tag -width indent
				.It Fl f
				Force the removal of the specified concatenated device.
				.It Fl h
				Hardcode providers' names in metadata.
				.It Fl v
				Be more verbose.
				.El
				.Sh SYSCTL VARIABLES
				The following
				.Xr sysctl 8
				variables can be used to control the behavior of the
				.Nm CONCAT
				GEOM class.
				The default value is shown next to each variable.
				.Bl -tag -width indent
				.It Va kern.geom.concat.debug : No 0
				Debug level of the
				.Nm CONCAT
				GEOM class.
				This can be set to a number between 0 and 3 inclusive.
				If set to 0 minimal debug information is printed, and if set to 3 the
				maximum amount of debug information is printed.
				.El
				.Sh EXIT STATUS
				Exit status is 0 on success, and 1 if the command fails.
				.Sh EXAMPLES
				The following example shows how to configure four disks for automatic
				concatenation, create a file system on it, and mount it:
				.Bd -literal -offset indent
				gconcat label -v data /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2 /dev/da3
				newfs /dev/concat/data
				mount /dev/concat/data /mnt
				[...]
				umount /mnt
				gconcat stop data
				gconcat unload
				.Ed
				.Pp
				Configure concatenated provider on one disk only.
				Create file system.
				Add two more disks and extend existing file system.
				.Bd -literal -offset indent
				gconcat label data /dev/da0
				newfs /dev/concat/data
				gconcat label data /dev/da0 /dev/da1 /dev/da2
				growfs /dev/concat/data
				.Ed
				.Sh SEE ALSO
				.Xr geom 4 ,
				.Xr loader.conf 5 ,
				.Xr geom 8 ,
				.Xr growfs 8 ,
				.Xr gvinum 8 ,
				.Xr mount 8 ,
				.Xr newfs 8 ,
				.Xr sysctl 8 ,
				.Xr umount 8
				.Sh HISTORY
				The
				.Nm
				utility appeared in
				.Fx 5.3 .
				.Sh AUTHORS
				.An Pawel Jakub Dawidek Aq Mt pjd@FreeBSD.org